implicit conversions to/from shared

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 11 06:31:54 PDT 2016


On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 05:26:42 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> Simply disallow reading and writing shared then, forcing 
> something more explicit like atomicLoad/atomicStore?
>
> That would be better than the current state, but it would make 
> shared even more unwieldy.

Atomic loads are only needed for volatile variables, not for all 
kinds of shared data. Also currently atomicLoad doesn't provide 
functionality equivalent to raw load.

> Generating atomic operations would break less code, and feels 
> like the obvious thing to me.

Multithreaded code can't be generated.


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